Workmen's advocate., 1887-02-19

number of the unemployed diminished
 Prohibition of tte employment of ChH- dren and eqtai poy for equal mork for Men and Women
 | Both are necessary to prevent the further sinking of wages and to save the rising generation from deterioration. Abolition of imii,vct 7uces aud 0tro- d"ction cf C Progressive Mcome Tac. Every tax upon necessaries of life is tax upon the workers force of labor, hence restriction upon production and an injury to the prosperity of the people.
 Finally: Rgorm of he Money and CfpdH System a,d promotion of Iudus- trlm dnd .AWicuHuum Productive Co operdfnre Associations by Me nterrention of State C1edt or State Guarauty.
 The point is to make credit accessible to the working class. This the State has done in most generous measure both directly and indirectly for the promo tlon of the capitalistic method of pro- | ductlon. Let the State now in it's own interest do the same for the cooperative associations of the workers. Nothing is more advantageous to the Common wealth than justice in all things.
 So much for the preliminary condi- tons Of labor reform. The working men have been advised, perhaps honestly enough, to keep out of politics and busy themselves solely with their economic Interests, as if political and economic in- terests could be separated as kindlings are split, with hatchet Whoever has followed our line of. reasoning thus far cannot, l think, be in doubt that pre- cisely the working class must first of all and most of all resolve to transform po- litical conditions in the direction of freedom. State-help no less than self help is needed for securing to the work CT the full, undiminished result of his industry, that is, an existence worthy of a man.
 The State alone, and only free State will help the workers
 Let us sum up briefly, the substance of the foregoing:
 The system of wages-labor meets the demands of Justice and Humanity as little as did the slavery and servitude of former times. Like slavery and servi- tude, wages-labor was once a step forward in civilization from which un- deniable advantages have accrued to society.
 The social question of the Present is how to abolish the wages system without losing the advantages of production and distribution en gros by means of associ- ated labor.
 To this end there is but one means, the system of free associated labor the CO., operative System. The Present is a time of transition from the wages sys- tenn (captalistic method of production) to the system of Associated Labor.
 In order to secure a peaceful transition. the worker, the employer and the State must work together:
 It is the part of the workers to offer united resistance to the pressure of cap- ltalistic rule, and by self-culture to pre- pare themselves for independence.
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 cern himself for the welfare of the work CTS, and especially to yield them share of the profits.
 1t Is the duty of the State to promote the efforts of the workers for sef-culture by promoting their organization. deter mining legal working day and afford ing adequate opportunity for free in- struction. It is the further duty of the State to assist the development of the cooperative system by reform of the bank and credit system and by atfording to cooperative effort the support of State-credit.
 Such help being possible only on the part of free State, it follows that all workers, and all friends of the workers must aim primarily at establishing true freedom within the State. Political and social freedom, freedom of the citizen without the sacrifice of the majority of mankind as wage-slaves; this is the task of our century. The achievements of the policy of blood and iron, the clang of arms in these, our days, the chase and struggle for wealth and sensual epiov- ment, these are but nipples upon the